Australian War memorial Acknowledge the Indigenous Frontier Massacres during Colonisation

Each year Ancestors of the Original Australians march to remember the uncounted thousands whom were massacred during the British colonial invasion of the land now known as Australia.

The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is demanding the honour, respect and dignity be afforded to those Sovereign Tribal Original People whom were slaughtered during the colonisation of Australia to be acknowledged in a National Day of Remembrance for the Frontier Massacres and that a monument be erected on ANZAC Parade infront of the War Memorial in Canberra.

Previous attempts by descendants of the Original Australian People to honour their dead in the official ANZAC day march have been handed the greatest indignity by event organisers and police who physically block the procession and prevent living descendants from honoring their fallen Ancestors at the Australian War Memorial on April 25th.

The Aboriginal Tent Embassy wishes to take the protest out of ANZAC day and honor our ancestors on a separate national day of remembrance.

We ask that the Australian Government initiate an official enquiry into the exact nature and details of the Frontier Massacres of Sovereign Tribal Original People from 1788 until the present day and produce a proper report into the matter.

We also ask for an Official National Day of Remembrance to occur every year for the Frontier Massacre of the Original people in Australia from 1788 onwards. This Day of remembrance is to occur on a signifigant date during colonisation, not ANZAC day, as this is a separate issue.

We also ask that a proper memorial be constructed on ANZAC Parade infront of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to honour our Ancestors whom were slaughtered during the colonisation of Australia.

The furthering of proceedings in relation to this issue must be decided at a NATIONAL SUMMIT MEETING to be held in Canberra MARCH 18-20 of this year at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.

The 'Frontier Wars' were undeclared yet resulted in the destruction of entire tribes and nations, We will never know for certain the exact figure.

The documentation needed to determine an exact figure is scarce - be it 100,000 or more ? A proper enquiry has never been comissioned, but absolutely must occur to determine the true nature of the colonisation of Australia.

Two historians, Raymond Evans and Robert Ørsted-Jensen, have concluded that in Queensland alone - the epicentre of frontier war in the mid-19th century Australia - at least 65,180 Aboriginal Australians were killed from the 1820s until the early 1900s.

Considering that their research focuses on Queensland alone, their findings are freighted with a disturbing implication about the number of Indigenous Australians killed continent-wide. Australian deaths in world war one would pale in comparison.

"Certainly the stories of massacres of Indigenous Australians are everywhere in the archives of the major cultural institutions of Australia and Great Britain. The diaries, letters, journals and memoirs of colonial and postcolonial officials, troops, police, farmers, frontiersmen and women are replete with accounts of fights against - and massacres of - the "marauding blacks". - Sovereign Union

Incomplete List of massacres of Indigenous Australians

Unfortunately the list of massacres is much longer than this but here is an annotated version of the full list ;

Queensland1. Brisbane valley Whiteside 2. Kilcoy Station owned by MacKenzie3. Upper Burnett River4. Balonne River5. Condamine River of Queensland6. Paddy Island in the Burnett River.7. Hornet Bank Station in the Dawson River Basin in Queensland 8. "Water view", North Bundaberg,9. 1861. Central Highlands what was then known as the Medway10. Goulbolba Hill St Helens Station Central Queensland:11. Bowen district Port Denison 12. Skull Hole on the head of Mistake Creek, 13. Bladensburg station (near Winton) Central Queensland.14. from the Endeavour River to the Palmer river The Battle Camp collision, Far North Queensland15. Blackfellow's Creek, Far North Queensland16. Cook district in Far North Queensland17. Selwyn Range, North-West Queensland18. Cape Bedford, Cook district Far North Queensland:19. Mount Isa, Queensland20. near Durrie on the Diamantina21. Speewah, Far North Queensland22. Bentinck Island: Part of the Mornington Island group,23. Yurrkuru waterhole, 20 km west of the Coniston homestead24. Cullin-La-Ringo

Northern TerritoryBarrow CreekArnhem Land Florida Station.

NSW

1. Sydney Cove2. Botany Bay3. Appin Cataract River, a tributary of the Nepean River (south of Sydney4. Cataract Gorge5. Bathurst6. Waterloo Creek7. Myall Creek near Inverell, New South Wales8. Gwydir River9. confluence of the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers in New South Wales.10. WIRADJERI around the Murrumbidgee.11. The Rufus River12. Evans Head13. north of present-day Nyngan14. Broken Hill, New South Wales,

15. The conjunction of the Hastings and Maria River near Port Macquarie. (Birpai)16. At Red Rock north of Coffs Harbour. (Gumbainggirr)17. At Tyndale on the Clarence about 2km from where we live. (Yaegl)At North Ballina. (Bandjalung)